Should be made by the same OEM manufacturer.. just rebranded. Save it for a project when you get a screwdriver ..... if you were about 3,000 miles closer I would have it running for you in 'bout 10 minutes!

I passed 20 passes of LinX at 3.8GHz using 1.175v (cpu-z reads 1.177). I'd say that's pretty good yeah? Maybe too good to be true... like that time I ran 9 hours of occt linpack at 1.275v for 4GHz and got a BSOD with a x101 code while playing a game. Anyway it seems I found the sweet spot for sure if this is indeed stable. 3.8GHz isn't bad at all... and at 1.175v temps and power usage stay relatively low. 62c load right now, though it's only 72f in here. Almost 4800ppd being reported by Ion's estimator for 3.8GHz.

True, at the end of the day actually using the computer seems to be a better test. I figure if I can survive 20 passes of LinX, which seems to be the industry standard among many overclockers, it should be able to survive anything else I can throw at it. Then again, like I said, 9 hours OCCT Linpack stable but then I got a BSOD during supcom2 while crunching. Stress test programs aren't to be 100% trusted, but it's a good indicator of whether you are stable or not. Save that one occurance I just mentioned, I've never had a computer pass a good stability test and crash in something else.